WHAT TRAINS DID YOU RUN TODAY?

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RSJB18 posted:

Rotated power and rolling stock today. I put away the LIRR and will run Pennsy steam for a while. I discovered a clearance issue with my 0-4-0 A-5 (K-line), and 0-6-0 B-6 (Lionel). The front running boards hit the roof of my team track terminal and the edge of the hill coming out of a turn. Minor fixes both.
Also running two Plymouth's (K-line), and a PRR H-10-44 (MTH).

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Being home sick has its perks.

1- The CEO can't really ask you to do work around the house because you're sick

2- Running trains is a good medicine

This MTH RailKing Proto 3 NY Central Alco RS-3, 

which has, IMO, great sounds, smoke, front and rear electrocouplers, and it's an excellent puller.

It is exclusively available from JR Junction Hobby in Syracuse, NY (a Forum Sponsor), which is donating $50 from each sale to the Central NY Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, Inc.

The video below shows this smokin' diesel hauling boxcars past Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds on The Put on my layout (LOL):

Arnold

That's a beauty Arnold

RSJB18 posted:

Being home sick has its perks.

1- The CEO can't really ask you to do work around the house because you're sick

2- Running trains is a good medicine

My dad always said if you stay home from school sick, you have to stay in bed all day!  No trains!!!!!!!

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

This MTH RailKing Proto 3 NY Central Alco RS-3, 

 

which has, IMO, great sounds, smoke, front and rear electrocouplers, and it's an excellent puller.

It is exclusively available from JR Junction Hobby in Syracuse, NY (a Forum Sponsor), which is donating $50 from each sale to the Central NY Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, Inc.

Arnold

 

Thanks - nice video Arnold!

Arnold,

A very nice engine. Use it well. The recent work on the layout is excellent too. I don't see the first picture on your post - just the video.

MELGAR

Here's the 1st photo again:

It’s early December 1968 and the Penn Central has been in service a little less than a year and the Pennsylvania Railroad and the NYC are scrambling in an effort to keep things running smoothly but it is to no avail.  With the arrival of the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia late in 1968 the Penn Central is forced to pair up some old NYC stream liners with an aging PRR GGI due to a shortage of available passenger cars.  Hopefully this will help to facilitate travel to the game from New York to Philadelphia.  Here they come down the old “Pennsylvania Race Track” just outside northeast Philly.               .      

OKHIKER posted:

It’s early December 1968 and the Penn Central has been in service a little less than a year and the Pennsylvania Railroad and the NYC are scrambling in an effort to keep things running smoothly but it is to no avail.  With the arrival of the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia late in 1968 the Penn Central is forced to pair up some old NYC stream liners with an aging PRR GGI due to a shortage of available passenger cars.  Hopefully this will help to facilitate travel to the game from New York to Philadelphia.  Here they come down the old “Pennsylvania Race Track” just outside northeast Philly.      

“Old”???… “aging”??? I would say Classic!!!   

Very nice consist.

Haven’t ever posted in this thread, to my knowledge, but as I’m in the middle of a layout renovation and was trying my AIU and 2 testing different engines on different track via DCS and conventional today I ran:

prewar:

ives 3252(posted a video somewhere)

Lionel 254E

postwar:

marx SP 6000 AA

Marx B&O FA

Marx 21 Santa FE AA(tin)

All above, except the Sp and B&O, has a consist of Bub, Bing, Fleischmann and Fandor

modern:

Lionel Amtrak Dash-9 with TMCC

MTH PRR 6-8-6 s-2 turbine with proto 2(still trying to find this item number!)

MTH Railking “Allentown Special” bump-n-go trolley

MTH premier NJT Genesis(P42DC) cab 4083

K-Line by Lionel B&O Boxcab

The above command mainly ran on their own, but I practiced coupling/uncoupling with an amtrak 16 inch coach,continental grains cyldrixal hopper and an LV Tank car.

The Prewar And Postwar to see how it’d handle FasTrack vs RealTrax. The Boxcab and trolley b/c I had a loop up already. And the rest to see how they would react to power from a Z1000 brick vs the 135 watt PH via the TIU

Pictures and video show my Peter Witt Brooklyn trolley car #8454 made by Williams-Bachmann. This is a scale-sized and detailed model that would look best on an inner-city layout running at slow streetcar speeds. Is anyone else running trolley cars?

Pictures and video by:

MELGAR

NY Central RS-3 freight train on Hudson Division and New Haven passenger train on New Haven Division:

Arnold

RS3s look good in any color, especially black!!  

Lionel Western Maryland 2-8-0 Consolidation, K line Pennsy A 5, MTH trolley all on the Free State Junction Railway. 

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

This MTH RailKing Proto 3 NY Central Alco RS-3, which has, IMO, great sounds, smoke, front and rear electrocouplers, and it's an excellent puller.

It is exclusively available from JR Junction Hobby in Syracuse, NY (a Forum Sponsor), which is donating $50 from each sale to the Central NY Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, Inc.

The video below shows this smokin' diesel hauling boxcars past Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds on The Put on my layout (LOL):

Arnold

 

Arnold,

GREAT VIDEOS!  Thank you so very much for sharing!

This:

Just got it back today from the DCC/sound guy. It now has a Tsunami 2 in it with DDE (Dynamic Digital Exhaust), notch up/down, "Straight-to-8", "Drop to Idle", and more (like a 30 second "Keep Alive" circuit!).

Sounds great, runs great. Had fun doing some switching in the South Stage with it.

Andre

Ran that same gorgeous NY Central RS-3 (the one I bought from JR Junction Train & Hobby mentioned above) through "My Little Town" along The Put:

This MTH Railking Proto 3 diesel smokes, sounds and runs great, and it is a great puller as shown in the video. It also navigates my 031 curves and 022 switches beautifully. 

I couldn't be happier with it. Arnold

Two of my favorites, along The Put:

Arnold

A frew freights running today

Century Club 2 Empire State Express Set

Recently Installed 0-72 Drawbar on the add on PT tender and an extra StationSounds Diner to boost the volume.

I had a run with the Lionel Southern Crescent Limited in the garden:

Regards

Fred

Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike, We've all come to look for America.

All come to look for America. Paul Simon

Arnold

Vintage Lionel General Set with added horse car and sheriff and outlaw car.

I ran one of my favorites: the Lionel #618 Boston & Albany Hudson made in the mid to late 1980s that has very good steam sounds, whistle and puffing smoke:

I ran it very slowly, pulling a double unit train of Postwar operating log dump cars up front and gondolas plus caboose in back.

You may ask, why did I run it very slowly?

Because when it accelerates, it sometimes makes a disturbing wheezing sound like it has a serious respiratory illness!

Lubrication is not the issue. It has recently been very thoroughly and carefully lubricated. When it does not make that disturbing wheezing sound, it runs and sounds great.

One more symptom that just occurred to me. When it accelerates and then makes the wheezing sound, it slows down. When the wheezing stops, it resumes normal speed.

It hardly ever wheezes when I carefully run it smoothly and slowly.

Any thoughts regarding the cause of the wheezing?

Do you think it needs a ventilator? (Just kidding, I couldn't resist, only trying to give us all some comic relief)

Seriously, I love this locomotive. It's got the best, realistic sounding whistle I ever heard, and I have other, more modern locomotives with superb sounds, whistles and horns. 

And, I would love to get the opinions of you train doctors out there about  the cause of the wheezing.

Arnold

A little Milwaukee action

K Line semi-scale Boston and Albany Hudson and Lionel 24xx 3-car set

Stay healthy and safe everyone!

~M

My new unit train, gondolas:

What's nice about a gondola unit train is it is inexpensive, each car typically costing $5 to $10 used at train shows or LHSs. Also, they are useful because you can put things in them, which little kids love to do. For years, my grandaughter loved giving her little Shopkins rides in the gondolas.

I also like the sound of the word "gondola." LOL, Arnold

Here is another inexpensive unit train I ran today: Sunoco oil tanker cars:

Arnold

Arnold,

I like unit trains too. On Warrenville I'm currently running 2 unit trains.

The first is headed by a PW Lionel Erie Lackawanna Trainmaster FM pulling a string of 13 Lionel 6414 Autoloader cars. At the end is an Erie Lackawanna caboose that I custom built (from 2 SP cabooses) and decorated. I love these cars and this train is usually on the layout.

On the upper level I'm running a unit train of 14 Lionel "chemical" tank cars (including the Warrenville Brewery car I recently made). This is headed by two, both powered, PW Lionel 231 Rock Island Alcos. Pulling up the rear is a marching Rock Island SP type caboose that I custom painted.

As to your gondola train, you might like to add something like the ones I recently posted, made from a good gond and a derelict one. No damage to the good one:

I ran some older RivaRossi Virginia & Truckee 4-4-0's:

Regards

Fred

Two Lionel PWC Gas turbine units circling my layout preparing for war.  The PWC #59 U.S. Air Force Minuteman with a consist of Menard’s flat cars carrying missile loads is followed by a PWC #57 AEC Turbine hauling a nuclear submarine and a dangerous cargo of nuclear waste.  Lots of growl in those motors but also lots of sweet smelling ozone.😃😃😃

Living vicariously through you folks.

I didn't run any trains today because I don't have a layout and my outside of home options are closed. 

Tomorrow I may run my Christmas train in a shuttle service back and forth on a folding table.    

Forgot to post a couple weeks ago, when a slow night at the office led to double-headed W&LE Mallets pulling a coal drag around the lobby. 

Here's a video of my 0-8-0 shoving some freight cars onto a siding in the Brewtown neighborhood of my layout.  The siding serves a brewery and public delivery track.  I had lots of fun staging and shooting this video about 5 years ago!  Youch!!!  I can't believe it's been that long ago!  Time flys when we're having fun with our trains!!

LC+ Erie Camelback hauling boxcars on a morning run:

Arnold

Because of the MTH announcement, I'm going to have to take good care of the trains that I have as of now. I have been predominantly a buyer of MTH. I went downstairs yesterday and exercised a couple of Lionel engines.

MELGAR